Handling and preservation of dead bodies has to be done with utmost care to maintain the dignity of the person. Failure to stand upto these expectations is not only unacceptable on Humanitarian aspects but may raise a lot of concerns about the service in the mortuary facility of a hospital. The errors which can occur at the Mortuary are the exchange of dead bodies, mutilation by rodents and decomposition due to improper temperature maintenance. The authors in this article aim to describe the broad Standard Operatives Procedures regarding body preservation and handling in a Mortuary Setup for deaths occurring in Hospital, bodies brought by police and death occurring of outside the hospital. All these can be avoided if proper guidelines are laid and followed for dead body handling and preservation. Hospital policy makers and administrators need to lay down the proper guidelines and sincere attention for effective implementation of the guidelines for smooth functioning of the mortuary.

Keywords: Mortuary Management; Dead Body preservation; Medicolegal Cases; Forensic Medicine.